Shane L. Windmeyer: Colleges Rally to Kick Chick-fil-A Off Campus
by pinkagendist
Shane touches a very interesting topic which concerns the long-game.
“Gallup polls suggest that young adults between the ages of 18 and 34 are overwhelmingly in favor of LGBT rights, and 76 percent of them support legalizing marriage for gay and lesbian couples. The Higher Education Research Institute’s annual Freshman Survey corroborates this support for same-sex marriage and also the fact that three quarters of college students today support adoption by gay and lesbian couples.”
From a commercial perspective Huckabee’s appreciation day was a one off. How many appreciation days would it take to outweigh the loss of permanent customers. The Crazy-Christians were, one presumes, already customers- I can’t imagine the numbers could stack up positively in the long run with an entire new generation who refuses to support the marginalization, exclusion and persecution of the LGBT community.
Read it at the HuffPo:
Shane L. Windmeyer: Colleges Rally to Kick Chick-fil-A Off Campus.
I’m glad to see views are changing although I’d argue the homophobia was artificially created in the first place by religious bigots to divide and weaken us. x
Those stats seem to match what we’re seeing here in Australia. In fact the only people who seem to be against gay marriage are those over 70 [and not all of them either] and politicians who are terrified of alienating their ‘core’ voters.
It seems that politicians all over the world are out of touch with what real people want and believe. I know the hard right in the US is a big lobby group but still….